By Cormac McCartan Aug 21, 2014 1:44PM UTC
People fill in a street during a march at an annual pro-democracy protest in downtown Hong Kong on July 1. Pic: AP. Continue reading
By Cormac McCartan Aug 21, 2014 1:44PM UTC
People fill in a street during a march at an annual pro-democracy protest in downtown Hong Kong on July 1. Pic: AP. Continue reading
China NPC meeting could be writing on the wall for democracy in Hong Kong已关闭评论
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Posted 27 July 2014 21:09 GMT
Screen Capture of the House News’ Facebook Page. The site had more than 230 thousand Facebook followers before it shut down. Continue reading
‘Terrified’ Founder Decides to Shutter Hong Kong Pro-Democracy News Site ‘House News’已关闭评论
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July 27, 2014 5:55 PM
Posted By: josh rudolph
Hong Kong pro-democracy website, blog, and news aggregator House News (主場新聞) has shut down due to a Continue reading
HK’s House News Closes Citing Political Pressure已关闭评论
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Kenneth Lau
Monday, July 28, 2014
A group of bloggers has set up a Facebook page for people’s commentaries on politics and other issues following the sudden closure of House News, a pro-democracy news site with strong ties to media Continue reading
Bloggers reboot democracy site已关闭评论
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Perry Link, with Ian Johnson
Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images
A sit-in for democratic rights in Hong Kong’s central district, July 1, 2014
The former British colony of Hong Kong reverted to China on July 1, 1997, and on every July 1 since Continue reading
Hong Kong Rising: An Interview with Albert Ho已关闭评论
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By George Chen
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An average of 70 out of every 10,000 Weibo posts made on July 1 were quickly deleted, according to researchers at the University of Hong Kong. Photo: Reuters
Hong Kong is apparently becoming the next Tibet or Xinjiang Continue reading
Beijing’s Weibo ban hits close to home-Suspension of accounts after the July 1 protest a worrying sign of threat to innovation, freedom已关闭评论
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By AUSTIN RAMZY JULY 3, 2014 3:08 AM July 3, 2014 10:46 pm
The police removed demonstrators on Wednesday morning from a sit-in that followed Hong Kong’s pro-democracy march.Credit Kin Cheung/Associated Press
After a day of largely ignoring the big turnout for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Continue reading
After Relative Silence on Hong Kong Protests, Mainland Media Outlets Note Arrests已关闭评论
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By MICHAEL FORSYTHE JULY 2, 2014 2:51 AMJuly 2, 2014 5:45 am
Marchers carried a scaled-down replica of the Goddess of Democracy, an icon of the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, during Hong Kong’s pro-democracy demonstration Tuesday.Credit Kin Cheung/Associated Press
Cecilia Ng was born seven years after the Goddess of Democracy statue in Tiananmen Square was Continue reading
In Hong Kong, a Potent Visual Echo of Tiananmen已关闭评论
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